Professor Choonara is the Principal Researcher at the Wits Advanced Drug Delivery Platform (WADDP). His research prowess served as a catalyst to establish the WADDP and pioneer innovation at the forefront of producing targeted and personalized medicines to treat infectious, hereditary and lifestyle diseases. He received the Top Intellectual Property Creator Award (Department of Science and Technology of South Africa) for pioneering more than 21 internationally granted patents in advanced Drug Delivery Systems, Intraocular Drug-Eluting Devices, 3D-Bioprinted Wound Healing Dressings and Bio-Inks, Targeted Nanomedicines, Neuro-Therapeutics and Bio-Inspired Tissue Engineered Scaffolds. He is also recognized for his scholarly output of more than 275 ISI-accredited publications (H-index=31) in the pharmaceutical sciences.